The Giants lead the series 3-1 and can clinch their first World Series title since moving to San Francisco for the 1958 season with a victory tonight. Neither starter pitched very well in Game 1, though Lincecum did get into a bit of a groove, retiring 13 of 14 batters at one point.

Edgar Renteria (!) leads the Giants in AVG, OBP and runs scored, while Texas' Mitch Moreland is 5-for-11, with a 1.318 OPS.

Rangers reliever Darren O'Day has pitched in all four games. No other pitcher has worked more than twice.

Nearly half of the Giants' runs -- 12 of 26 -- have come in the eighth inning. They have yet to score a run in any of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, or 9th innings. That may be noteworthy, in a Starkian way. (Or not.)

I was there for WS Game 2, the 9-0 masterpiece by Cain. Javier Lopez pitched a great inning in relief, and I remember thinking, why can't the Red Sox ever have any relief pitchers like that? I might try to tune in to the thread tonight while watching. Yikes, it's 4:45 already, need to rush home for the game in 15 minutes.

Finally home. Morgan was hilarious on radio: "man, these guys are all swinging at the first pitch like they have a plane to catch.". Then, after Rowand's first-pitch hit, "great first pitch hit - I never said not to swing at the first pitch, just only swing at good pitches."

Funny, my 7-yr old has asked me a similar group of questions, and we established that I would root for the RS against everyone, the Giants against everyone other than the RS, and never root for the Yankees, unless they were playing "the Nazis."

Buster and Cody! Maybe we need an all dog names' team, using everyone's dogs. But I have never seen a ball player with any of my pets' names. We did have a cat named Louie once, but otherwise, just looking at male names...not much.

Starting to get that end of summer feeling....like baseball is just about over for another year. Even though it is NOVEMBER, I still feel like there is a bit of summer as long as someone is playing baseball.

I enjoyed reading over this thread just now. Game 5 was a shocker, as was the identity of the MVP. San Francisco went insane that night, and apparently the parade today was just huge although I could not go.

I'm touched you all watched and threaded and rooted for SF. I love this team now. Not the same as the RS, of course, but it's great to have a home in the NL. And a WS trophy.

This was great. Growing up in the Bay Area, the A's were closer but we still went to many games at Candlestick. McCovey was still playing during my first games there in the late '70s. Then seeing guys like Jack Clark (who ended up on the RS later), Will Clark, and the original Uribe, Jose, who was the shortstop during the 1987 NLCS series I saw against the Cardinals. But of course, they lost then, got sooo close in '02, and were dominated in '89. Nice to see the home team win. I wouldn't mind seeing the Cubs, Indians, Mariners, Rockies, even the Rangers eventually win, as long as it wasn't at the expense of the Red Sox. Looking forward to Spring already.